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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Egg of My Heart

I'd love to know how many miles of ribbon are used up on French chocolate eggs this Easter.Is this the biggest chocolate egg in the world?At Marquise de Sevigne on rue de Seine it's 2,800 kilos of chocolate (6,160 pds) and only costs 180,000 euros. Some choc eggs are decked out in pale green ribbons for the holiday. An egg within an egg at La Maison du Chocolat on rue de Sevres. The tiny boutique was so jamed-packed with shoppers they were selling chocolate eggs in the street as well. Never happen in New York :) My favorite old fashioned candy shop, Les BonBons on rue Brea had eggs up the whazoo and the shop was packed. Well every chocolate shop was packed on Saturday in Paris.Patrick Roger had giant a "Stone Henge" of chocolate eggs in his window.

Plus he used the shells as containers for even more chocolate eggs.

A miniature tableau of a mini chocolate shop on Ile St. Louis.

Fauchon, always the innovator, showed faux egg yolks in a verrine looking much like prairie oysters.

Here they are.

Your everyday egg crate filled with some of the best chocolate in Paris at Patrick Roger and costing a tad more than the average dz.

Jean Rachoux had little Piu-piu/chicks hatching in his window.

More hatchery going on in a children's boutique - non-edible this time.

13 comments:

Happy Easter, Carol!This is a wonderful Egg-O-Rama, no wonder people stand in line. Nice to see that Laduree's chocolate eggs were decked out in the same pale green that's my favorite Easter color. ;-)

Happy Easter! And it was a very happy one indeed if you spent a part of it at Vaux! Did you know that it was built for the finance minister or secretary of the treasury (you get the idea) and when Louis saw it, he had the man jailed! Confiscated it and then hired the 3 designers who built Vaux (architect, painter and landscape designer - this was a very successsful collaboration) to do Versailles? Be careful NOT to outdo the king!I remain, your humble servant, and mistress of a much more modest domain....

Thanks for the wonderful "taste" of Easter in Paris through your great photos. Do the chocolatiers still feature village Easter scenes in their windows, all in chocolate, or is that passe? I've exhibited much self control today not to sample any chocolate eggs but after seeing these mouth-watering goodies all bets are off.

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